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Jurgen Comics Contest Newspaper And Artwork - Fall 2023, Julia Martinez
Jurgen Comics Contest Newspaper And Artwork - Fall 2023, Julia Martinez
Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest
Digital edition of the Jurgen Comics Contest broadsheet newspaper celebrating the Fall 2023 Contest winners. The newspaper design and supplemental artwork were created by contest student editor Julia Martinez. Supplemental promotional materials include a poster for an online information session.
The Fall 2023 Jurgen Comics Contest invited VCU students to explore a specific historical incident of censorship or suppression of visual art, books, music, film or performance.
The Mouse In The Museum, Maggie Colangelo, Bernard Means
The Mouse In The Museum, Maggie Colangelo, Bernard Means
Virtual Curation Lab's Comic Publications
Find out about America's first successful public museum of art and natural history from a unique perspective: a mouse! The museum mouse guides you through Charles Willson Peale's Philadelphia Museum from its founding in his own home to its eventual establishment in what is now called Independence Hall. You will encounter a killer bear, an eagle that has seen better days, and the massive bones of an extinct elephant: the mastodon. This gripping tale is brought to you by Maggie Colangelo and Bernard K. Means, co-creators of Founding Monsters, Founding Monsters Tales, Mystery of the Missing Megafauna, and Tales from …
Beyond The Veil: Hijabi Superheroes And The Power Of Representation, Moom Thahinah Ms
Beyond The Veil: Hijabi Superheroes And The Power Of Representation, Moom Thahinah Ms
Theses and Dissertations
As a Hijabi woman, I am often misrepresented by stereotypical narratives in Western media that obscure my individuality and agency. My thesis addresses the misrepresentation of Hijabi women, challenges audience perceptions, and empowers Hijabi women to confront these narratives.
Informed by design and media discourse, I developed a narrative and a Hijabi superhero character appropriating tropes of Western comic books. The resulting research combines two outcomes: a print-based narrative and a transformative garment. Print media is used to address the lack of Hijabi representation in Western comics while showcasing the character’s ability to combat discrimination. Derived from the comic format, …
Shinners, Alexis E. Mabry
Shinners, Alexis E. Mabry
Theses and Dissertations
Shinners is a project that aims to examine the position of women in subcultures and capture conversations of women in subcultural sports. Within feminism, sociological constructs, campy horror, and personal experience I am manifesting the physical and mental obstacles faced in the subcultural sport of Bicycle Motocross (BMX) through photography, painting, collage, video, and sculpture. I interpret images posted to social media of injuries obtained while riding BMX as forms of empowerment, bodily gore as extreme evidence of participation, performative violence, valorizing the understanding of both the physical and psychological pain of failure, and the use of failure as a …
An Interview With Jennida Chase, Sunny Spillane, Jennida Chase
An Interview With Jennida Chase, Sunny Spillane, Jennida Chase
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
Spider-Man, Terror Of The Comics Code Authority, Winston Broiles
Spider-Man, Terror Of The Comics Code Authority, Winston Broiles
Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest
Storytelling prize winner in the Fall 2023 Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest
A humorous comic about how Spider-Man comics emboldened the comics industry to reject oversight and censorship by the C.C.A.
Driven Underground, Alexander Tyree
Driven Underground, Alexander Tyree
Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest
Runner-up in the 2023 Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest.
This comic takes the reader on a journey beneath the streets while exploring the language of the 1954 Comics Code and its effect on the subsequent underground comix scene.
A Heart Pierced By A Narwhal Tusk And Other Sketches, Maggie Colangelo, Bernard Means
A Heart Pierced By A Narwhal Tusk And Other Sketches, Maggie Colangelo, Bernard Means
Virtual Curation Lab's Comic Publications
A series of sketches and spot illustrations by artist Maggie Colangelo, Senior Graphics Artist for VCU's Virtual Curation Laboratory. Many of the illustrations are related to various celebrations over the calendar year, usually tied to open houses in the lab.
Tales From The Virtual Curation Lab, Issue 01, Maggie Colangelo, Bernard Means
Tales From The Virtual Curation Lab, Issue 01, Maggie Colangelo, Bernard Means
Virtual Curation Lab's Comic Publications
"Tales from the Virtual Curation Lab brings you fascinating graphic narratives inspired by artifacts, fossils, historic objects—and even one person—3D scanned by VCU’s Virtual Curation Laboratory. Read about an Ice Age camel that had its face ripped of by a bear, the world’s oldest ham, a vampire’s skull, and more!”--back cover
The Mystery Of The Missing Megafauna, Maggie Colangelo, Bernard Means
The Mystery Of The Missing Megafauna, Maggie Colangelo, Bernard Means
Virtual Curation Lab's Comic Publications
The creative team behind Founding Monsters and Founding Monsters Tales have created a new comic that takes a more scientific and less historic approach to the giant mammals that once roamed North America. The Mystery of the Missing Megafauna explores how changing climate impacted biodiversity and megafauna populations in North America at the end of the last Ice Age. Particular attention is placed on the extinction of mastodons, mammoths, giant ground sloths and other megafauna whose fossils are found at Saltville in southwestern Virginia. This comic draws a connection to contemporary climate change and the major extinctions happening today. The …
Emergent Trends Of Contemporary Dramatic Recontextualization: An Exploration Utilizing Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, Cameron M. Nickel
Emergent Trends Of Contemporary Dramatic Recontextualization: An Exploration Utilizing Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, Cameron M. Nickel
Theses and Dissertations
The art of adaptation in the realm of drama has undergone an easily recognizable evolution in the past couple of decades, from the work of Sarah Ruhl to Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. This evolution has opened doors to an altogether new form of adaptation in the theatre: dramatic recontextualization. While the two forms are built upon a foundation of shared aspects, there are certain observable and quantifiable delineations between the two artistic forms. As this trend continues to grow exponentially in the world of theatre, it is important to further research the origins and methodologies of contemporary dramatic recontextualization, both to provide …
Ink (2022)
Ink, 2008-
The student-run features magazine covering the fashion, art, music and culture worlds at VCU and in Richmond. Published annually in print and updated regularly online.
Distributing The Stars & Stripes, Patrick Potter
Distributing The Stars & Stripes, Patrick Potter
Mighty Pen Project Anthology & Archive
A military kid delivers papers and shows his perspective of an American military base in France and the soldiers there.
Articles, stories, and other compositions in this archive were written by participants in the Mighty Pen Project. The program, developed by author David L. Robbins, and in partnership with Virginia Commonwealth University and the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, Virginia, offers veterans and their family members a customized twelve-week writing class, free of charge. The program encourages, supports, and assists participants in sharing their stories and experiences of military experience so both writer and audience may benefit.
Pwatem: An Anthology Of Literature And Art (2022)
Pwatem: An Anthology Of Literature And Art (2022)
Pwatem (Poictesme), 2006-
Pwatem is an anthology of literature and art from undergraduate students at Virginia Commonwealth University. Pwatem publishes poetry, prose and art of all kinds from talented undergraduate students of all majors.
Graduate School's Transformative Awakening: An Arts-Based Autoethnography, Roxanne L. Brown
Graduate School's Transformative Awakening: An Arts-Based Autoethnography, Roxanne L. Brown
Theses and Dissertations
This is an autoethnographic journey of a 30-year veteran art teacher through graduate school during the 2016 presidential campaign, election, presidency, #MeToo movement, a global pandemic, Black Lives Matter (BLM), virtual teaching and grading during a pandemic. My narrative includes an account of my transformative academic, social, and personal experiences and how they have informed my teaching practice. They include a collection of visual representations I created during my graduate school journey.
She: Performing Biography As A Dramatic Narrative, Ashley J. Love
She: Performing Biography As A Dramatic Narrative, Ashley J. Love
Theses and Dissertations
Abstract
SHE: PERFORMING BIOGRAPHY AS DRAMATIC NARRATIVE
By Ashley Love, Master of Fine Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University
Partial Fulfillment Statement:
Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Pedagogy at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Director: Dr. Aaron Anderson
Interim Director of Graduate Studies, Theatre Department
Amid the current wave of feminism, women continue to strive for equal ground within societal constructs. Progress is being made in the workplace, the arts, and media presence, but why does it seem that women’s stories of the past continue to be overlooked as if insignificant? This …
Defiantly Childlike: Using Aesthetic Resistance To Heal, Sarah K. Reagan
Defiantly Childlike: Using Aesthetic Resistance To Heal, Sarah K. Reagan
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines an alternative processing mechanism surrounding the act of healing after traumatic experiences in life. Using a methodology of iterative patterning and tool-pathing, a collection of inflatable garments and wooden mannequins analyzes defense mechanisms learned in early childhood development. This work highlights an essential body of recent scholarship that takes cuteification seriously to restore a childlike approach to mastering fear. This paper will review the definitions of cuteness and childlike humor and then describe how visual culture has implemented these components to subvert established power.
Covid Edition, Journal Of Hip Hop Studies
Covid Edition, Journal Of Hip Hop Studies
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
No abstract provided.
Founding Monsters Tales, Maggie Colangelo, Bernard Means
Founding Monsters Tales, Maggie Colangelo, Bernard Means
Founding Monsters
The creative team behind the Founding Monsters comic book—Maggie Colangelo and Dr. Bernard K. Means—bring you Founding Monsters Tales. Founding Monsters Tales features all-new art by Maggie and explores and expands on themes in Founding Monsters. Meet again Moses Williams, an enslaved servant of the Peale family who not only helped reconstruct the first mastodon skeleton, but was an unheralded artist in his own right. Find out whether mastodons were meat eaters, and how they differed from mammoths. Learn whether Thomas Jefferson was correct in his interpretation of what he called “the great claw.” Discover what Jefferson thought …
Founding Monsters, Maggie Colangelo, Bernard Means
Founding Monsters, Maggie Colangelo, Bernard Means
Founding Monsters
The Founding Monsters comic book was created as a science-friendly graphical storytelling framework that tells the story of the Founding Fathers and their obsession with prehistoric megafauna, especially mastodons and giant ground sloths. Founding Monsters combines sequential art (e.g. comic book style) with historical and scientific data. The first mastodon (Mammut americanum) fossils were found in New York in the early 18th century. Later in the 18th century, Thomas Jefferson was sent fossils from what is now West Virginia for what were eventually identified as bones from a giant ground sloth (Megalonyx jeffersoni). The founding fathers, …
Pwatem: An Anthology Of Literature And Art (2021)
Pwatem: An Anthology Of Literature And Art (2021)
Pwatem (Poictesme), 2006-
Pwatem is an anthology of literature and art from undergraduate students at Virginia Commonwealth University. Pwatem publishes poetry, prose and art of all kinds from talented undergraduate students of all majors.
National Novel Writing Month Behind Bars: A Road Map For Nanowrimo At Fci-Elkton, Jason Kahler
National Novel Writing Month Behind Bars: A Road Map For Nanowrimo At Fci-Elkton, Jason Kahler
Journal of Prison Education and Reentry (2014-2023)
Writers and students at Federal Correctional Institution-Elkton use low-tech strategies to participate in National Novel Writing Month. Prisoners reflect on the challenges and power of participating in an entirely prisoner-led event. Over the span of a six-week course, students earn programming credit by responding to prompts, working on their novels, and reporting word totals and goals. The author positions himself as a researcher, practitioner, scholar, and prisoner, who balanced the needs of good teaching and positive educational experiences with the realities of working in a prison as a prisoner.
Failing In My Own Class, Bryan Castro
Failing In My Own Class, Bryan Castro
Theses and Dissertations
This research statement summarizes how my artwork has shifted from my performance-lecture Say It After Me to the painting-installation Becoming Dysfluent. To understand that shift in my practice, an account of my performance-lecture Say It After Me is explained in order to understand how it’s similar and different to Joseph Beuys’s performances with blackboards. Next, the relationship between the American educational system and my identity is explained in order to understand how my experiences as an instructor in higher education informed the creation of my performance persona Professor Castro. After discussing my identity as a Puerto Rican-American, my decision …
Pwatem: An Anthology Of Literature And Art (2020)
Pwatem: An Anthology Of Literature And Art (2020)
Pwatem (Poictesme), 2006-
Pwatem is an anthology of literature and art from undergraduate students at Virginia Commonwealth University. Pwatem publishes poetry, prose and art of all kinds from talented undergraduate students of all majors.
Martian Mother, Elizabeth Mcgrady
Martian Mother, Elizabeth Mcgrady
Theses and Dissertations
This paper examines the relationship between humans and land, through the lens of the scientific and religious, bridging the physical realm with the spiritual. It acts as accompanying material to the project titled Martian Mother, supplementary information to the visual work, and an extension of the proposal, the center of the work. The proposal exists to send myself, or a like-minded individual, to Mars with artificial insemination equipment to give birth to the first Martian, becoming the first Martian Mother. This work is rooted firmly in speculative fiction, creating a nonlinear future framework for a new society and space exploration.
Why We Use A New Currency: The Role Of Trust And Control In Explaining The Perception And Usage Of Bitcoin, Joseph B. Walton
Why We Use A New Currency: The Role Of Trust And Control In Explaining The Perception And Usage Of Bitcoin, Joseph B. Walton
Theses and Dissertations
Social media, e-commerce, global peer-to-peer technologies, and the near ubiquity of computers and smartphones allow people to interact, trust, and exchange value across traditional socio-economic control boundaries and over significant distances. Since the creation in 2008 of a new cryptographic currency system called Bitcoin, a financial technology market sector of about 250 billion USD has rapidly emerged, raising questions about the nature of currency in society and whether new types of non-national money are warranted and viable. This debate has pitted heterodox economic interests against orthodox economic interests while it has rekindled interest in theories that view money as a …